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— A week ago, Barnes & Noble, Inc., announced it would not keep copies of the new edition of O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" in its stores, saying the book was not expected to sell.

Since then, the book has jumped into the top 50 on the superstore's online site, Barnesandnoble.com, and ranked No. 48 as of Aug. 26.

But Barnes & Noble has not changed its mind.

"We still have no plans to stock it in our stores," spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating said on Aug. 26.

Simpson's book was first scheduled for publication last year by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins. But "If I Did It" was dropped in response to widespread outrage, including from relatives of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

Last month, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded rights to the book to Goldman's family to help satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against Simpson.